With a frigate's anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!

John Bradshaw," says Milton, "appears like a consul, from whom the fasces are not to depart with the year; so that not on the tribunal only, but throughout his life, you would regard him as sitting in judgment upon kings.

A collector is a kind of junkie--there is no stopping,' Brownstein laments, entirely unabashed, as we inspect a collection of rare Revolutionary-period Sevres cups and saucers where the likes of Phrygian caps, fasces (bound bundles of rods) or tricolour ribbons are interspersed with typical floral reserves (Fig.

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